Directory Language Recognition

Discussion in 'Directories' started by gala_wanderer, Jul 29, 2008.

  1. #1
    Understandably a lot of people are dealing with large lists of directories, that can be hard to manage. Unless you're mega intelligent, you'll come across a number of directories that are in a language you can't understand (although your submission script may recognise the form fields...it can still be hard to pick a category).

    I have a couple of questions regarding this

    1) What do you do, hit/miss approach in your list of directories, and just ignore 'foreign language' directories after you browse them?

    2) Or, perhaps you ignore certain IP addresses that are based in 'foreign language' countries to save you looking at them. (at the risk of ignoring suitable directories)

    3) Does anyone use language guessing scripts to save on any time mis-spent in option 1?

    4) If no to option 3, do you think there is a demand for an online API? i.e. parses page then attempts to decipher the main language used.

    Cheers.
     
    gala_wanderer, Jul 29, 2008 IP